Playable Prototype of Daredevil: The Man With out Concern Seems On-line 19 Years After Its Cancellation

Almost 20 years after the superhero motion sport was unceremoniously canceled, a playable prototype for Daredevil: The Man With out Concern has appeared on-line. Developed by the now-defunct 5,000 Ft. Studios, the beat ‘em up title would have seen gamers entering into the sneakers of the titular superhero to cease a gang conflict that’s enveloped Hell’s Kitchen.

A playable PS2 prototype for the canceled Daredevil: The Man With out Concern sport has been posted on-line

As reported by Eurogamer, new footage of Daredevil: The Man With out Concern has proven up on-line together with a playable prototype of the PlayStation 2 model of the sport. The prototype, which was posted to online game archive website Hidden Palace, offers avid gamers an opportunity to check out the Marvel superhero sport almost twenty years after its cancellation. Whereas the sport is reportedly rife with bugs, with Hidden Palace noting that glitches may cause gamers to clip via partitions, a lot of the content material that was completed previous to Daredevil: The Man With out Concern’s cancellation is outwardly accessible within the leaked copy.

Initially meant to function a free assortment of a number of the most iconic moments from the protagonist’s lengthy profession as a superhero, Daredevil: The Man With out Concern was a third-person motion title deliberate for launch on PC, PS2, and Xbox. Following the announcement of a Daredevil film starring Ben Affleck, the dimensions and scope of the sport ballooned drastically resulting in quite a few manufacturing delays.

Deliberate for a February 2003 launch to coincide with Affleck’s movie, the sport was repeatedly pushed again earlier than Daredevil: The Man With out Concern was canceled outright following the departure of a number of 5,000 Ft. Studios builders and Marvel’s refusal to approve its launch. The completed sport would have seen gamers acrobatically flipping and preventing via Hell’s Kitchen to attempt to deliver an finish to a gang conflict that erupted following the obvious assassination of felony mastermind, Kingpin.

Whereas avid gamers won’t ever get an opportunity to see what a totally completed model of Daredevil: The Man With out Concern might have been, no less than there’s nonetheless hope for the Marvel hero to make a long-awaited return to gaming. Following years of rumors about Daredevil making an look in Insomniac’s Marvel’s Spider-Man sequence, it seems the crime-fighting lawyer could quickly have a cameo. Latest remarks from Insomniac’s Senior Inventive Director Bryan Intihar concerning a Daredevil Easter Egg in Spider-Man 2 trace that crossover content material could possibly be within the works, with Intihar telling avid gamers to “Keep tuned.”